How Breanden Beneschott scaled to more than $80,000,000 a year with almost no outside funding

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🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Breanden is the COO + Co-founder at Toptal, a private network for the top 3% of freelance software engineers and designers that started from his dorm room and then scaled to more than $80,000,000 a year with almost no outside funding.

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0:00.0	Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcome to episode 1457 of EO Fire, where
0:09.2	I interview today's most successful entrepreneurs seven days a week and check out our free podcasting
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0:22.2	Nalleshaw with today's featured guest, Brendan Beneshot. Brendan, are you prepared to ignite?
0:28.6	Let's do it. Yes. Brendan is the COO and co-founder at TopTow, a private network for the top 3% of
0:36.5	freelance software engineers and designers, the started from his dorm room and then scaled to
0:41.7	more than 80 million a year with almost no outside funding. Brendan, take a minute,
0:47.8	fill in some gaps from that in-chown. Give us a little glimpse of your personal life.
0:52.3	The start with TopTow. We're a network of the top 3% of software engineers and designers from
0:58.3	all over the world and companies like Emirates and Harvard Medical School and Shopify and lots of
1:03.9	startups and dev shops and banks and governments etc. hire us to join their team and help solve some
1:09.9	of their toughest technical problems. My personal life, since we started this from my dorm room a
1:17.3	little over five years ago, has been a non-stop top-towel and we set it up as a completely remote
1:23.5	company and so for me personally and as well as a lot of top-towel that has meant a lot of travel
1:30.0	all over the world and this idea of one while we're young and working in this remote setup and
1:36.2	everything, we can and we have the luxury to be able to travel and kind of live a lifestyle that we
1:40.5	want but also it actually benefits the business and all sorts of significant and beautiful ways.
1:47.9	We end up recruiting people that would have never been on our radar had we not decided to pick up
1:53.8	and travel kind of for the last several years. I love this in Fire Nation. If you are recognizing
1:59.4	Brendan's voice right now you are truly a fire nation-fable because this guy was episode 132
2:07.4	of EO Fire. So that is over 1,325 episodes ago and in fact we were talking pre-interview a little
2:14.2	bit that back then he was around five miller so in revenue and now again he's closing in on a
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